prologue

"you fight not with claws, but with man's sword. you strike not with teeth, but with man's lightning..."

the guardian-wolf stopped to breathe, their stare focused on the child, eyes aflame with... was that sorrow? malice, perhaps? even they themselves did not know.

the child stared back, with the same defiance as the men did when they destroyed the wolf pack's forest- the men who destroyed the pack's hope.

no, they told themselves once more, this child cannot stay with the wolves. he is a wolf no longer- but rather, a man.

suddenly fearing that defiant gaze, the guardian wolf lay down in submission and closed their eyes.

"you are human."

genshin impact au//